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July/August 2012 Legal
Snafus Delay LAFCO UCSC Decision - UCSC Long Range
Development Plan for 2020 by the Numbers - Beauregard
Vineyards Dinner Concerts Canceled - Public Access to
Coast Dairies? We’re Still Waiting - Resource Survey of
CEMEX Redwoods Under Way - Cyclists Coming Through the
Doon July 28 May/June
2012 Bonny Doon: a Grape Place for Wine -
Terroir of Bonny Doon - UCSC Expansion Plans Dammed -
Big Step Forward for Coast Dairies - Open Space
Easements: Trading Tax Breaks for Land Preservation -
CEMEX Redwoods Land Update - Reminder: Bike Race in
Bonny Doon May 14 - Going Outside? 1st Check this Site March/April 2012 Cemex
Land Purchase: What You Need to Know - Water for UCSC
Expansion: Something’s Fishy - Monsters Invade Bonny
Doon - Bike Race Returns to Bonny Doon - Arboretum
Founder Ray Collett Dies - Now We Are Seven (RBDA Board) January/February 2012
Big Creek and Our Forests - CEMEX Land Purchase and
Preservation Announced - Bonny Doon ignored by LAFCO in
UCSC Decision - Coast Dairies Suit Appealed - It’s That
Time of Year Again! - Keeping Bonny Doon Rural and
Natural - RBDA Board Elections November/December 2011
Santa Cruz Puma Project: Where Do Lions Live? - LOL:
LAFCO Out Loud - A Hole Story, Unfinished - The Multiple
Uses of Bonny Doon Roads - Ecological Reserve Happenings
- RBDA Board Nominations - What Do YOU Think? September/October 2011
Rules for Non-Conforming Structures - Coastal Watershed
Protection - Coast Dairies Diary - HAWC grounded -
UCSC/City water deal cleared to LAFCO July/August 2011
With Key LAFCo Vote Approaching, the UCSC Expansion
Timeline, Annotated - Santa Cruz County Land Trust
Conservation Blueprint, Bonny Doon and the RBDA -
Pandora's Box Opening: Reform of Regulations on
Nonconforming Structures and Uses on the Table - Santa
Cruz Mountain Challenge Bicyclists Touring Bonny Doon
July 30 May/June 2011
Conservation Blueprint for Santa Cruz County - More
Water for Bonny Doon Fish, Less for City - Legal
Challenge to UCSC Water Expansion EIR in Court May 11 -
The RBDA Wants YOU! - Bonny Doon Reserve Gets New
Manager - An Apology March/April 2011
The Wild World of Frogs, Dr. Kerry Kriger - Update on
Changes to Zoning Rules - Western Pine Beetles Threaten
Ponderosas - RBDA Executive Board Changes - Search for
Fugitive Prompts Communication Concerns - New LAFCO
Water Policy May Affect UCSC Expansion - Coast Dairies
Update - Cement Plant News - RBDA Membership Drops January/February 2011
The Evolving Ecology of the Bonny Doon Reserve -
Streamlining Zoning: Back to the Future? - RBDA Board
Elections at January 12 Meeting - LAFCo to Take Up UCSC
Water Service - Membership Renewals Due February 1 -
Judge Throws Out Coast Dairies Petition - Keeping Wilder
Organic November/December 2010
Bringing Back the Salmon - Public Forum On County Fire -
Boarding Houses in Bonny Doon? - Cemex Misses Quarry
Closure Plan Deadline - Judge Favors LAFCO in Fire
District Suit - Feds Help Laguna Creek Regain Wetland -
Legal Battle Over UCSC Expansion Water Supply Continues
- Sharing the Road - RBDA Board Nominations at the Nov.
10 Meeting - Housesit a Frozen Deer September/October 2010
Peregrine Falcons: Back from the Brink - Town Hall
Meeting with Assemblymember Bill Monning – Giving the
Public a Voice in Coast Dairies Uses - The RBDA’s Role
in Land Use Issues - Cemex Timberlands Headed for Public
Ownership?- UCSC Water Expansion Flows Along - Like
Bonny Doon the Way It Is? Consider Running for the RBDA
Board - Goings on in the Trees July/August 2010
Final EIR on Expanded UCSC Water Due Soon - Cemex
Abandons the Bonny Doon Quarry - Neal Coonerty Shares
Goals For His New Term - Walk Like an Ecologist - New
County Fees Chill Public Records Act Inquiries May/June 2010 Mountain
Gardening, Jan Nelson – Supervisor Election June 8 -
UCSC Expansion Update - What Is Worth Saving? - Cemex
Keeps Quarry Option Open - RBDA Membership Update March/April 2010
Famed Explorer Mike Fay Talks Redwoods - Cemex Plant
Closure Opens Questions - Process Begun to Increase
Rural Fire Service Funding - What is County Fire? -
Bonny Doon Loses a Great Asset - Deficiencies Noted in
UCSC Expansion EIR - New RBDA Officers - UCSC Study Now
Tracking 10 Lions - “Fire Safe” Update - Membership
Update January/February 2010
A Staircase Through Time: Marine Terraces Of The Santa
Cruz Area - Making Bonny Doon Fire Safe - Famed Explorer
at March 2 RBDA Meeting - RBDA Board Elections -
Community Service Officer for Bonny Doon - Finances and
Membership Renewals - Crucial EIR For UCSC Expansion
Released - Gas From Slash? - Want To Protect Our Parks? November/December 2009
A Strong Environmental Voice Is Stilled - North Coast
Law Enforcement May Improve Despite Budget Woes - More
Problems Emerge for Cemex Quarry Expansion - EIR for
UCSC Upper Campus Expansion Expected Soon - Lockheed
Fire Aftermath - Open Space District Bill Withdrawn -
RBDA Board Nominations At 11/11 Meeting September/October 2009
The Cemex Quarry Expansion: It’s the Water - Important
Fire Related Information - Wonder Where the Lions Are? -
CCC to Vote on Accessory and Second Unit Building Rules
- Selling Mobile Phone Service to Your Phone Company -
Love Bonny Doon? Consider Running For The RBDA Board -
No Joke: LAFCo Fights To Defend Its Territory July/August 2009
The Fire Next Time: Getting Ready - New Coalition Formed
to Oppose UCSC Expansion - Fish Fry as State
Fiddles - Update on Mountain Lion Project - A Quieter
and Safer Bonny Doon May/June 2009
Santa Cruz Open Space District - Better Approach to Land
Protection - Cal Fire Comes to Bonny Doon - Update on
the Quest for a BD Fire District - Crime Wave Washing
Over Bonny Doon? - We Appreciate All Your Support - RBDA
Board Shuffles Roles - New RBDA Mailing Address -
Highlander Editorial Policy March/April 2009 Meet
the Bats of Bonny Doon - Amador Station Coming to Bonny
Doon and CalFire Coming to RBDA Meeting - Cemex
Chromium(VI) Chapter Closes - City Council Undermines
UCSC Settlement - Mountain Lion Update - State Septic
Regulatory Constipation Continues - The beginning of the
end of the RBDA? January/February 2009
The Secret Life of Mountain Lions - Tour of California
Bike Race - Cemex: The Dust Is Slowly Settling - Cycling
Tour of California Coming Through Bonny Doon - Hard
Financial Times for the RBDA Too - LAFCO Extinguishes
Fire District Again - Carol AtwoodUCSC Lawsuit in Mediation - County to Redo Cemex Quarry Expansion DEIR - Frans Lanting to Donate Proceeds of photo sale - Nov. 14 Declared ‘RBDA Day’ - CHP Responds to Motorcycle Petition Policies in Potential Fire Areas - UCSC Sued Over Clean Water Act Violations - CLUE - Watershed Association Formed, Laguna Creek Walk Scheduled - Hot News About Eco Reserve Fire Fuel Reduction - Credit Where It’s Due - New RBDA Officers EIR A Joke, But Expansion Is Not - Annual RBDA Board Election - North Coast Trail on Track - Green Waste Going to Waste? - BLM Proposes Dousing Wilderness Areas with Herbicides Released - Cemex Continues Quarry Expansion Efforts - Fire Safety in the Ecological Reserve - Lockheed Defuses Some Environmental Concerns - The Magic of Bonny Doon. . .It Didn't Just Happen Naturally - Home Insurers the Teeth Behind New Fire Safety Law - RBDA Board Nominations Abatement Program Comes to Bonny Doon - What are CSAs and Who's Running the Show? - City Water Dept: Fish Don't Need Water - Prolonging Landfill Life - Unlocking Lockheed - Winery Site for Sale - RMC Timber Harvest Sandhills Habitat Conservation Areas in Bonny Doon - Got Mail? - City’s Water Line Relocation EIR Now Available - CYA Camp Conversion - Coastal Cell Phone Antennae "Up" For Approval - Roadside Spraying UCSC’s Long Range Development Program: the Battle Begins - Berkeley Sues Cal. Regents Over University Expansion - USPS Truck Sighting on Empire Grade - RBDA Board Election Results "Save the Mail" Committee? - A Short-Range Defeat for UCSC’s Long Range Development Plan - Landfill Alternatives - TM Group Converging on a Plan Thayer Road Dump Site - Planning Commission: Felton Quarry a Nuisance - Impacts of UCSC Long Range Development Plan - Coast Dairies Title Transfer Stalled - Coho Update: Return of the Natives! - RMC Sold to Cement Manufacturing Giant - TM Group Continues Research - RBDA Board Nominations - CCALM Group Scores Victory (Wild) Life on the Edge - Waldorf School Expansion Approved - Court Cuts Down County Timber Zoning Law - RMC Loses Appeal on EIR - North Coast Farm Visitor’s Center to Open May 1 - New Board Members - Looking For A Few Good Astronomers Unlocking the Lockheed Files - Third Landowner Proposed for Coast Dairies - RBDA Executive Board Election - Homeseller's Signs: Necessity and Eyesore - RBDA Board Meeting Coast Dairies Visionary To Speak At November RBDA Meeting - BLM Collects Comments - RBDA Road Committee Sends Storm Runoff Report to County - Adopt A Culvert - Lockheed: Do Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors? - RMC in a Scrape in Ecological Reserve - Nominations Due At November 12 Meeting - A Hunter’s Shot Shocks Resident (whoa!) Learning From Maps - Coast Dairies Transfer Delayed: Agriculture, Access Uncertain - Homer Strikes Out: Big Creek Goes to Bat for RMC - RMC Plans More Logging - RMC Forms Davenport Citizen’s Committee - Our Gratitude Is Off The Charts Coast Dairies: New Property Owners Moving Into Bonny Doon (with map - Congressmembers Support Coast Dairies Deed Restrictions - New Information Coming Down the Pipeline - Free Pipe Organ Concert at Boomeria - No RBDA Meeting in July - Have a Great Summer! Moon Rocks Surrounded by a Potential Moonscape - San Vicente Creek Flow Threatened - Waldorf, Neighbors, RBDA Get Beyond Their Salad Days - RMC: Resource Management for Consumption - Deliver Comments Directly to Postal Execs - Water and Property Rights, Take 1 - Water and Property Rights, Take 2: County Environmental Health Dept. Adopts New Well Policy - Monster Home Has First Hearing - Coast Dairies Property Transfer Approaching - Bush Bending the Rules Sipping The Sea: Desalination - Supes Blur the Urban/Rural Line, Raise Land Use Questions - Uncle Sam Rides Into Bonny Doon - Ag Pond Becomes Fish Nursery - Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve Update - Reaching Higher for Better Mail Service The State of The County 2003 - Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt - North Coast Farmers - Scrooged by Coast Dairies Stormy Times for Bonny Doon and County Budgets - So Long, But Not Good-bye - RBDA Board Nominees’ Statements Red-Tagged Horse Facility Approved - Eco Reserve Planning Proceeds - Supremes Take on 2nd Unit Suit The Artists of Bonny Doon - Planning Head Plans for Improvements - Agenda for General Meeting - Summary of Actions of RBDA Executive Board - Permit Hearing for Vigne Farms Boarding Stable - North Coast Water Safe for Now - RMC Digs in on EIR - Ecological Reserve Plan Presented - RBDA Board Election Red Tape and Red Tags: Improving the Planning and Permit Process - Commercial Stable Headed for Permit Hearing - New Rules for Board Elections - Second Unit Suit Falters Again - RMC Plant Expansion - New Deputy for Bonny Doon Fish and Farmers on the North Coast - Coast Dairies Management Plan Delayed - Davenport Water Affected by RMC - New Bylaws Approved - City’s Leaky Pipe May Be Bonny Doon’s Problem - Felton’s Water Now Comes Catch - RMC Timber Harvest Approved - Software Alliance Bites Goat Pharm Company - Dates Set for RBDA Board Meetings Special Meeting to Revise RBDA Bylaws - Pipelines: Santa Cruz City Water & You - BLM In Your Backyard - Stable Project EIR Raises Questions - RMC Gassing Up Its Chainsaws - Where’s Waldorf? It’s Here. But Should it Be? Two Birds’ Dangerous Tales - Coast Dairies Planning Process Moves Ahead - More Help for Horse Owners - Waldorf: The Right School in the Wrong Place? - Pig Petitions Online - Quarry Expansion EIR Exemption Denied - No Quorum at Meeting County Supervisors’ Candidates Night - Bylaws Changes Set for Vote - Good Horsekeeping - Coast Dairies Planning Process Continues - RMC Quarry Expansion Blasted - Money in the Pipeline - RBDA Board Elections - Pig Busters - Mailboxes in Bonny Doon? Rooting out wild pigs - Overview of proposed new bylaws - Official help for two local creeks - Sudden oak death syndrome fungus threatens area ecosystems - Maintaining your road frontage - Interested in serving on the RBDA Board? - Update your email address - County landfill at Dimeo Lane now accepting household hazardous wastes on Saturdays Sudden oak death syndrome - Roads committee sets goals - Felton empire pavement repair - The Bonny Doon Planning District (with map) RBDA standing rules - Verifying membership - Bylaws review continues - Feed your need for (modem) speed - County's loans for farmworker housing rehabilitation and improvements at the coast Coast Dairies: what is, what could be - How the postal service works, and doesn't - Pinus cellularis: endangered species on the coast - County road repairs - Issues appropriate to the RBDA - Committee to study bylaws created - Verifying membership qualifications The Post & The Coast, the Post Office’s Julia Simon; Board Incumbents Reelected; RBDA Members’ Eligibility Questioned; You Had Questions, We’ll Try to Find Answers; New Board Elects Officers, Replaces Fred Bryck; Limits Continued on Equestrian Center Operations; The Cell Sell; Spread Community News?; Board Considering Committees on Bylaws, Roads; Mending a Fence; It’s Sir Frans Now All about Board elections and RBDA philosophy All about our mail delivery - Crystal Vision: Roy Rydell, 1915-2000 - Goat Pharm Still Not Cleaned Up Water, Water, But Not Everywhere - Want Bonny Doon News? Tune to the RBDA Web Site - Danger at Cave Gulch - RBDA Push Leads to Emergency Road Repairs - The Return of the Unfriendly Skies (helicopter logging in Bonny Doon) - Coastal Commission Says No to Sprouting Growth - The RBDA needs you—how about running for our executive board ? Redwood Meadows Ranch Winery hearing - Thirsty for Water Knowledge? - Deputy Stefan Fish - Well Metering Ordinance - SCBI Drops Goat Pharm Master Plan - County’s 7-Year Road Repair Plan - Ben Harmon Elected to RBDA Board Potholes, Patching & Paving (Repairing the Roads of Bonny Doon) - Goat Town Now Ghost Town - Planning Commission Puts Hitch in Winery’s Wedding Plans - Keeley Bill Calls for Clearcutting Hiatus - The Fungus Among Us - The Foul Smell of Excess (asphalt production at the Felton Quarry) - What You Want? Coastal Commission Confronts County Supervisors on Biotech Goat Pharm - Redwood Meadows Winery Hearing Set - New Deputy Sheriff a Natural for Bonny Doon - Iron Monsters Threaten Motorists in Cave Gulch - Distant Rumble of Things to Come? - Deputy Rescues the Eco Reserves Solar Energy In Your Home - Moon Rocks Protection Only a Small Step - Tickets Penned for Empire Grade Parkers - Plover Lovers Wanted - Here Comes the Sheriff - Redwood Meadows Winery Hearing in June? - Goat Pharm Gets Deadline to Get Its Manure Together - Court Belts 2nd Unit Suit - Friends of Bonny Doon? - RBDA Representatives to Advisory Groups Bonny Doon Vineyards—A Second House on Every Plot? - What Is a Good Lumbering Operation? - Motorcyclists Tearing Up Gray Whale - SCBI’s Foul ‘Soup’ on Supes’ Agenda - More "Oops" from PG&E - Wylie Joins RBDA Board - UCSC’s Parking Problems Are Ours, Too - Help with Quarry Petition Data Input Mushroom Cuisine with William Rubel——PG&E tree cutting, more—SCBI biomedical goat ranch —Cunningham winery proposal—RMC Lonestar update—Board of Forestry timber harvest updates Disaster preparedness—Coast Dairies management planning process—PG&E tree cutting—Felton quarry—SCBI matters—Board of Forestry and local timber harvest updates Environmental safety—Coast Dairies management planning process—PG&E tree cutting—Sheriffs in Bonny Doon—Felton quarry—Twin Gates—Board of Forestry update Sheriff on the North Coast?—PG&E tree cutting policy—Second Unit Ordinance—Cunningham development position—coastal septic tanks bill AB 885—SOAL update—Davenport cement plant noise, again—Beames back on the Board Logging Reform: Necessary or Not?—Waldorf School Expansion—Logging Bills: Assemblyman Fred Keeley's AB717 and AB748 —Beat Back the Broom, by Grey Hayes, New Wave of mail theft—No More Mystery Sound?—Gray Whale Advisory Committee—Graniterock’s frogs—Felton Quarry wants to drop the 20-night a year restriction on hours of operation Karen McNally on earthquakes, RMC/Pacific Materials, Logging update, Water Well survey, new board members, and more. CDL use plan report, SCBI and the problem with goats, RMC name change & update, logging rules, Coast Dairies, board elections, and more. Grapes and goats, quarries, logging rules, Coast Dairies transfer, petitions, and more. RMC quarry, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Highlander sponsorships, the Buzz, C.A.M.P. report, remembering Ken Norris and Dave Williams, and more. RMC quarry, logging, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, website and 2040 Task Force, tire burning, quarry noise, executive board changes Water resources, logging, RMC quarry noise, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, website and 2040 Task Force, tire burning, quarry noise, bed and breakfast, remembering Dean McHenry and Jane McConnell |